[LouieFisk]

This is a great piece of ephemera, I enjoy checking out such old manuscripts.

[Fiddlstix]

Thank You very much

I post my little bears every Christmas...been doing it for years...

[mairdie]

The other important piece of ephemera is the letter from Henry Livingston to his fiance, Sarah Welles, fifty years before the first publication of the poem. It begins with the greeting that is used as the last line of the poem. The poem is the first time Vassar Professor Don Foster found that phrase published.